Years ago, empath Elijah Long made a bad decision, and he is still paying for it. He’s kept hidden from his abusive werewolf ex for years, but when he wakes in a dark room, cuffed to a wall, he knows he’s out of luck. Elora, his psychic sister, will come for him, he just has to endure long enough to give her a chance to find him. Captain Kol Jaecar of Rockshade’s Paranormal Investigations Department detests slow times at work, so when Elora wants time off to search for her brother, Kol treats it as if it’s a real case and starts an investigation. What he assumed was a brother not picking up when his sister called turns out to be something else. Elijah experiences people’s emotions so strongly, it prohibits him from living a normal life. Spending time in the city is out of the question, yet it’s where Elora takes him once she finds him. Elijah does his best to keep his distance, especially from the growling man Elora brought to his rescue. Elijah will never make the mistake of getting close to a shifter again. The moment Kol smells Elijah, he knows he’s his mate, but how to get close to someone who doesn’t want to be near you? The man who abused Elijah is still on the loose, and Kol calls in the entire team to hunt him down. But how are they to keep Elijah safe when he can’t be around people? And how will Kol stay sane if he can’t touch his mate?

Mind Scrambler

“Every Tuesday he ate at Doris’ Steakhouse, and then he came home to make sure I was where he’d put me. Sometimes the man was with him, they’d go behind the garage.”


Kol raised his hand to his lips and kissed it. “I need to go talk to Elora, wait here.” He hurried out of the office and found Leo, Elora, and Ulf in the conference room, papers spread out around them, a laptop with several tabs open.


“Every Tuesday, Varg had lunch at Doris’ Steakhouse.” All three turned his way.


“What?” Elora searched for something in a stack of papers.


“Elijah said Varg had lunch at some place called Doris’ Steakhouse every Tuesday, and there was a man with him occasionally. Not to the steakhouse, but he’d see him with a man, and they’d go around the garage, and then Varg would come back alone.”


“I know where Doris’ is.” Elora brought up a map on the computer and pointed at a building.


“I’ll go take a look.” Ulf was already getting to his feet. “Do we have anything on the man by the garage?”


Chapter 44